The next session in the program Collecting Design will be devoted to collecting American Modernism, with two lectures on Monday evening and on Tuesday morning. Those who gave birth to America modern design were mostly emigré designers working in America such as Joseph Urban and Paul Frankl from Vienna; Kem Weber from Germany, Ilonka Karasz and Hunt Diederich from Hungary, Rena Rosenthal, though American born, had lived in Austria for ten years. Rosenthal opened the Austrian Workshop, which was followed in the early 20s by the Rena Rosenthal Studio that specialized in selling the latest European designs. Most Americans living through the Depression were surrounded by modernist objects, had modernist kitchens and bathrooms, enjoyed modernist appliances, dined at modernist diners, and traveled on modernist trains.